The many different animals that live in a great kapok tree in the Brazilian rainforest try to convince a man with an ax of the importance of not cutting down their home.

"Priscilla Short lived off the grid for a year in a strawbale house in Taos, NM, with no electricity, no running water, and a wood burning stove for heat. At the end of the year, Short returned home to Denver committed to making a smaller ecological footprint by consuming less and conserving more. In Thrifty Green, Short offers a unique, resource-by-resource approach that shows us that the best way to practice conservation, the real win-win, involves...

Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare provides an invaluable account of the new and increasingly dangerous competition for the world's dwindling natural resources. Arguing that the world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion -- one that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water, and arable land -- Klare shows how the desperate hunt for raw materials is forcing governments and corporations...

Documents the story of William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct, the largest public water project ever built, describing how it transformed a small desert city into a modern metropolis.

The end of poverty? is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary by award-winning filmmaker, Philippe Diaz, revealing that poverty is not an accident. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land and other natural resources as well as in forced labor. Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting...

Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.

Adquirir y/o actualizar conocimientos sobre la fabricación del aglomerado puro de corcho y sus manufacturas. Ebook ajustado al certificado de profesionalidad de Fabricación de objetos de corcho.

What is it about another person that sometimes makes friendship instantaneous? Despite differences in both age and background Bella and Evelyn meet and when Evelyn announces, 'What I'd like is to be buried naturally straight in the earth with a tree planted on my grave,' they find they are able to discuss some of life's big issues. Evelyn's husband Earl has been cremated and is apparently "waiting" for Evelyn. She wants none of that for herself. 'You...

Adquirir y/o actualizar conocimientos sobre la recepción, cocido y corte de planchas de corcho natural para la obtención del certificado de profesionalidad. Ebook ajustado al certificado de profesionalidad de Fabricación de objetos de corcho.

Actually,A child asked me, " What is God Anyway". I didn't know exactly how to answer her as I did not want to offend her scientist,atheist father. After we discussed the the subject a bit,I told her that I would write her a story. I attended all Catholic Schools through graduate school and was given,at an early age, the marvelous gift of faith and wonder. I wanted to impart the innocence,hope, joy and awe that was given to me Since i was given these...